Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge tab

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Before the Deluge – Jackson Browne
Intro: (play 2 times)
|G |C |G |C |
|G |C |G |D |
G
Some of them were dreamers
CG
And some of them were fools
EmCGCG
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
G
With the energy of the innocent
CG
They were gathering the tools
EmCGG
They would need to make their journey back to nature
EmG
While the sand slipped through the opening
CG
And their hands reached for the golden ring
EmCDD
With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge
EmCGCG
In the troubled years that came before the deluge
G
Some of them knew pleasure
CG
And some of them knew pain
EmCGG
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
G
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
CG
They went flying around in the rain
EmCGG
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
EmG
And in the end they traded their tired wings
CG
For the resignation that living brings
EmC
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
DEmD
For the glitter and the rouge
EmCGCG
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge
GCGC
Now let the music keep our spirits high
GC
And let the buildings keep our children dry
GDGC
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
GC
By and by...
GCGD
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/j/jackson-browne/89937.html ]G
Some of them were angry
CG
At the way the earth was abused
EmCGG
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
G
And they struggled to protect her from them
CG
Only to be confused
EmCGG
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
EmG
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
CG
In the naked dawn only a few survived
EmCDD
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
EmCGG
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge
GCGC
Now let the music keep our spirits high
GC
And let the buildings keep our children dry
GDGC
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
GC
By and by...
GCGD
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky
Coda:
|G |C |G |C |
|G |C |G |D |
Repeat coda and fade
Transcribed by Gerard Koot (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – may 2007
email: gerardkoot@hotmail.com
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I’ve added a sample fingerstyle arrangement of the intro. The intro is not played like
the original recording but it’s a way of playing
the intro violin melody combined with chords.
The vertical lines (|) above the high e string indicate the quarter note beats of the measures.
Tuning: EADGBe
Intro:
GCGC
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
e|-----------------|---3---------5---|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3---------5---|
B|-3-----3-----3-5-|-----5-----------|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-----------|
G|-----4-----------|-------5---5---5-|---7-------------|-------5---5---5-|
D|---5-------5-----|-----------------|-5-------5-------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|
E|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
GCGC/ED/F#
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
e|-7-----8-7-5-----|---3---------5---|-7-----7-------7-|-5-----5---------|
B|-----8-------8-5-|-----5-----------|-----8-------8---|-----7---8---10--|
G|---7-------------|-------5---5---5-|---7-------7-----|---7-----9---11--|
D|-5-------5-------|-----------------|-5-------5-------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-5-------7---9---|
E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|